Kayo Shido

Kayo Shido is a NY based artist whose maximalist abstractions explore the overflow of subconscious memory through fluid layering, textural density, and poetic complexity. Rooted in emotional landscapes, her paintings embrace visual intensity—each mark a residue of inner weather, each surface a map of feeling made visible. Her work resists reduction, instead offering a charged atmosphere where nuance accumulates like sediment, inviting the viewer into a terrain of controlled chaos and lyrical saturation.

Saga Art College
Art Student League of New York
New York Studio School
School of Visual Art of New York

2025
"Turn and Turning Still" The Painting Center 6/24-7/19
“Radius” Delaware Contemporary 6/6-8/24
Solo exhibition, Healing Art Gallery 6/7-6/27
“Portals of Nature” Brooklyn Art Cave - 5/30-6/1
“Art From The Boros XI” - Denise Bibro Gallery (virtual) Februay 7 - March 29
“Allegory of Sight” - Van Der Plas Gallery, NY, January 3-17
2024
“Environ-Mentality” curated by Openings - Gertrude G. white Gallery - April 1 - 27
“Addition/Subtraction” curated by the Openings – St. Paul the Apostle Church – January 10 – February 10

2023
“Abstract Abstraction” – LIC-A Art Space – October 12 – November 8
“LOAM” – The Delaware Contemporary Museum, DE – June 9 – August 27
“Spring Exhibition” －I like your work - March

2022
“Off the Wall” – Culture Lab LIC, NY – Dec – Jan 29
“Did You Too See It, Drifting, All Night, on the Black River?” – Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Heaven, CT – Oct 2 - Nov
“Sound and Sight: A Duet” - The Watermark at Brooklyn Heights, NY - July 12 - October 29
“TERRARIUM” – Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY – March 5 – May 6
“PLASTICITY” – Galeria Azur, Madrid, Spain – February 22 – March

2021
“Connected Fragments” curated by Kayo Shido and 3 other artists – 208 Bowery, New York - July
SJAC 2021 Exhibition – Tenri Gal...